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Poultry Feed Guide for Farmers

The document provides a recommended feed plan for stall-fed chickens and discusses cost-effective feed options. It outlines a feed plan consisting of 47% yellow maize, 12% soybean meal, and other ingredients like gingelly oil cake and rice polish totaling 100%. The plan is calculated to provide 17.69% daily crude protein to meet a chicken's needs. Additional common and cost-effective poultry feeds are listed such as corn, wheat bran, fish meal, and vegetable and fruit waste. Nutritious plants that can be grown for chicken feed are also recommended.

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Poultry Feed Guide for Farmers

The document provides a recommended feed plan for stall-fed chickens and discusses cost-effective feed options. It outlines a feed plan consisting of 47% yellow maize, 12% soybean meal, and other ingredients like gingelly oil cake and rice polish totaling 100%. The plan is calculated to provide 17.69% daily crude protein to meet a chicken's needs. Additional common and cost-effective poultry feeds are listed such as corn, wheat bran, fish meal, and vegetable and fruit waste. Nutritious plants that can be grown for chicken feed are also recommended.

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CHICKEN

FEED PLAN

SUNSHINE FARMS
Introduction

Most of the poultry feed plan are purely designed to


meet the requirement of a chicken reared in stall fed
system. The first half of the document run through a
recommended feed plan for a stall fed chicken & it’s
daily crude protein calculations. In the second half it
tries to list out cost effective feed options.
Feed Plan for Stall Fed
Ingredients Percentage
Yellow Maize 47
Soyabean meal 12
Gingelly oil cake 4

Groundnut oil cake (expeller) 6

Rice polish 13
Wheat bran 4

Fish meal/dried unsalted fish 6

Dicalcium phosphate 1
Salt 0.25
Mineral mixture 1.75
Shell meal 5
Total 100.00

Source: -Kerala Agricultural University


DCP CALCUALTIONS
Protein
Feed Type % Content DCP
Content
Yellow Maize 8.23% 47 3.87

Soybean meal 45% 12 5.40

Gingelly Oil Cake 32% 4 1.28

Groundnut Oil Cake 37% 6 2.22

Rice Bran 10% 13 1.30

Wheat Grain 8% 4 0.32

Fish Meal 55% 6 3.30

Dicalciumphosphate 0% 1 -

salt 0% 0.25 -

Mineral mixture 0% 1.75 -

Caco3 0% 5 -

AVERAGE DCP 17.69

As per different article Chicken Requires DCP 17~18% ideally throughout its life
cycle only quantity of the feed intake varies
COMMON POULTRY FEEDS
 Corn
 Wheat Grain/Bran
 Rice Bran
 Fish meal
 Groundnut Cake
 Sesame Cake/Gingelly Cake
 Soybean meal
 CaCo3/Egg Shell/Crab Shell all as calcium
supplienment
(Mineral/Salt supplement requirements are not recommended for
free-range)
COST EFFECTIVE FEED
 Meal Worms/BSF
 Fish & Its Guts
 Animal Guts
 Flax Seeds
 Fodders
 Fermented Grains
 Sprouted legumes/Grains
 Earthworms
 Azola/Duckweed
 Alfalfa
 Compost & Vermicompost
 Vegetable waste ( Avoid Garlic & Onion will out off flavour to eggs)
 Any high yield fruits
 Beetle Trap Kit
 Any cake which is left after oil extraction

Left over diary products are recommended in small quantity for better immunity &
digestion (generate probiotic bacteria for digestion)
LIST OF HIGHLY NUTRITIOUS PLANTS RECOMMENDED FOR CHICKEN

Cover Crops Orchard & Pasture Forage Circles &


Seed Flats
Red clover Swiss chard Sorghum
Rye grass Sorghum (Milo) Amaranth
Millet Oats Nasturtium
Cucumber
Alfalfa Popcorn
Beets
Mustard Pumpkin Spinach
Daikon radish Flax Broccoli
Sunflowers Chicory Turnip
Quinoa Mustard
Kale
Quinoa
Daikon radish
Organic Source hunt
 Corn
 Rice Bran
 Wheat Grain
 Soybean meal

More to be added after the discussion.


THANK YOU

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